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Editor's Note: The first few words of the second sentence in Ray Kestenbaum's letter in last week's issue should have read: "Over the years...

Milton Himmelfarb died earlier this month at age 87, and chances are you never heard of him if, like most Americans, you tend not to be a devotee of intellectual and political journals. But Milton Himmelfarb — Mendy, as he was known to his family — was, by virtue of temperament, history and family, a seminal figure in the development of neoconservatism as one of the country’s most influential political forces.

Rabbi Nachman's "Tale of the Master of Prayer" describes a royal court that includes a bard, or melitz in Hebrew, who is a master poet and orator.

These polls over five years clearly indicate that Palestinians do not accept Israel and are not ready for peace with the Jewish state.

The morality of avoiding Palestinian civilian casualties may be unquestionable, but the failure to protect Israel's citizens is downright unconscionable.

What could 250 neighbors, friends and supporters - men, women and children - do against their own soldiers and police?

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington is America's national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history.

Conspiracism is probably best characterized as a form of mental illness.

JERUSALEM - Israel's Sephardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar took the time last week to speak with The Jewish Press at his home in Jerusalem.

Public discussions of Israel's nuclear policy almost never delve into core questions of targeting doctrine. Yet, the actual extent to which Israel's security will be affected by its nuclear weapons will depend considerably upon the IDF's codified targets and on the precise extent to which these targets have previously been identified.

The mainstream media have long sought to demonize Jewish settlers in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, painting them as violent destructive bullies.

Lessons From MisfitsPat Robertson declares that Ariel Sharon's massive stroke was the result of divine wrath for dividing the Holy Land. The ADL's Abe...

There was no escaping the news of Ariel Sharon’s massive stroke last week. Newspapers, magazines, radio, television, the Internet — all were chock full of breaking stories; backgrounders on Sharon’s life; sound bites from doctors, Israelis, Arabs, Jews in New York, and various Jewish organizational types desperately trying — without much success — to seem even a little bit relevant.

There's no polite way to say this: If you think even for a moment that the court will take what you say at face value and give you everything you ask for, you're as big a fool as a moth heading straight toward a burning light bulb.

There can be no room for doubt. The need to conduct a military strike against Iran's nuclear program increases with each passing day.

America's Founding Fathers said "no taxation without representation." They never said "no taxation" period.

In honor of Chanukah, a time of joy, I have been delving into the realm of Jewish music.

While serving as rabbi at Oxford University, I befriended a young African-American Rhodes scholar by the name of Cory Booker who became like a brother to me.

Note To ReadersWhen we published Rabbi Moshe Faskowitz's open letter of resignation from the Rabbinical Council of America in our issue of Dec. 23,...

NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” has once again inspired dismay among at least some Jewish viewers who feel the line between simple bad taste and outright anti-Semitism was crossed on the Dec. 17 edition of the long-running show.

"This is not a documentary, and nobody's pretending it is," Foxman responded in a line straight out of the film's public-relations playbook.

Were the U.S. to actually propose taking military action against Iran, the Left would be up in arms (figuratively speaking, of course).

The most important reason to sign a prenup is that such agreements will not succeed in wiping out the plague of aginut until and unless they become standard practice.

The only remaining justification for disengagement is supposed to be demographic: that by withdrawing from Gaza Israel postponed the day when Jews become a minority in their own country.

It may sound like the starkest of contradictions, but Abigail Pogrebin's Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish (Broadway Books) is as depressing as it is addictive.

Spielberg's Selective EquivalencyIt is clear that Steven Spielberg's latest movie, "Munich," attempts to portray the Muslim killers of the unsuspecting Israeli athletes as just...

Science begins with the discovery of regularities. A regular feature of all Islamic "suicide" terrorists is a declared love of death. For us in the West, such declared affections must seem intuitively suspect. After all, they are contrary to everything we normally believe about self-preservation, reason and human behavior.

With today's media, taking sides instead of reporting is usual.

"What the FBI apparently didn't realize was that Rifkin was a refugee from the Russians, not an agent of the Russians," says Jack Yampolsky, a retired Philadelphia accountant whose parents, Louis and Betty, were leaders of the Bergson group's local chapter.

I was interested in Jewish identity in whatever form it took.